Hi Bill,
Thank you very much for your comments – they are really helpful since as you
said there is little-to-no documentation on the web on how to develop a custom
connector.
Thanks again for your help :)
Best Regards,Sim085
> To: users@tomcat.apache.org> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Tomcat
> Custom Connector> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 19:17:03 -0700> > AFAIK, there isn't
> a lot of documentation. But there isn't that much too > it. You need to
> implement a ProtocolHandler >
> (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/ProtocolHandler.html)
> > This class is responsible for managing the transport (e.g. ServerSocket)
> and > request threads (but the various EndPoint classes in >
> org.apache.tomcat.util.net may simplify this aspect for you). For best >
> results, this class may implement ActionHook as well >
> (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/ActionHook.html).>
> > When a new request comes in, it is the ProtocolHandler's job to initialize
> a > Request >
> (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/Request.html)
> > and a Response >
> (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/Response.html)
> > objects for it, making certain that they get valid InputBuffer >
> (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/InputBuffer.html)
> > and OutputBuffer >
> (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/OutputBuffer.html)
> > instances to comunicate with the client. Then within the thread, you hand
> > the Request and Response off to the service method of the Adapter >
> (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/api/org/apache/coyote/Adapter.html)
> > that Tomcat will give to the ProtocolHandler. And that is pretty much it >
> :).> > Using the standard server.xml (as opposed to Embedding), you would
> configure > Tomcat to use your Connector with an element like:> <Connector
> protocol="com.myfirm.mypackage.MyProtocolHandler" ... />> Any other
> attributes in the <Connector /> tag will be passed JavaBean style > to the
> ProtocolHandler to handle init options.> > For the simplest example, look at
> > org.apache.coyote.memory.MemoryProtocolHandler (but this one is mostly >
> useful for unit testing).> > "Simon Aquilina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi,> I am interested in building a custom
> connector for Tomcat. I have checked > the Tomcat source code and found the
> source code for the ‘http11’ and ‘ajp’ > connectors. I thought of trying to
> understand the code of these two > connectors and then try to implement mine
> based on these. However I am no > expert and was wondering if there is any
> good documentation/tutorial on how > a connector can be developed for Tomcat
> (I would later use this connector > with Geronimo).> Just to give you some
> insight; what I want to achieve is to build a custom > connector so that
> Tomcat can understand requests made from a 3rd party > clients who cannot
> communicate using the Http protocol and nor do they > expect data in html
> format. Additionally some of the clients could > communicate on Bluetooth!> I
> do not know if the above is even possible but I am willing to try :)> Thanks
> for any replies,> Regards,Sim085>
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